It is taking too much effort and energy for me to continue. Some of you may not know that I'm an old man with back pain (Sciatica). I'm going to be living on Green Smoothies and Water for a while, just to see if it makes any difference. I wonder how it feels to flush a human body with Green Sludge?
Putting all the ingredients into a blender cannister, adding a little water, and high-speed Blending to release all the Nutrients, just seems the way to go (for me) now. An added bonus is that Preparation and Cleanup is so easy. Just two items to clean.....WY

this was a great blog a woman who lived on green smoothies for 6 months to lose weight and heal things .. give it a read from the start its really an amazing blog

[greensmoothieexperiment.blogspot.com]

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

so do we call you smoothie yogi now?

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Jgunn Wrote:
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> so do we call you smoothie yogi now? You are kind to give me a little attention, Jodi. No, I'm still going to be the Wheatgrass Yogi because I'll be putting frozen Wheatgrass Juice cubes in my smoothie mix.

hehe yay ! cheers to the wheatgrass !

btw have you tried using apple cider vinegar for your sciatica .. Prism from this forum suffers from it too an she has had amazing relief from hers by bathing in the stuff and my dad suffered from tremendously painful rheumatoid arthritis in his neck (he was a welder) and hes amazed at the relief hes having with the stuff

she adds a couple of cups to the bathwater and takes 3 spoonfulls orally daily

maybe worth a try .. a spoonfull in yer smoothie you probably wouldnt even notice if yer not the vinegar drinking type (personally i love the stuff lol)


its the braggs stuff with the live mother in it .. regular store stuff is dead

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist




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yogi

don't give up juicing. get a green star and store your juices for a few days in the fridge. juicing is the one thing that can do the most for you.

buy a 5 gal. bucket of blueberries (frozen) from a food supply like sysco. and make blue berry smoothies and ice creams. i heard blue berried and buck wheat are good for sciatica.

sprout the buckwheats and juice and add to smoothy.

wish you the best.

jj

I know someone who had sciatica who fixed it with one Osteopathic manipulation treatment from a D.O. type doctor. Craniosacral therapy is another alternative. Both are very gentle. The advantage of the Osteopathic manipulation by a doctor is that insurance often will cover it.

Sciatica is nasty - one of those problems you won't die from, but wish you would.


Green smoothies sound like a great alternative - I know someone who rebuilt his worn discs by drastically improving his diet and including lots of green smoothies. At the time I thought they were inferior to juice, now I'm not so sure.
He had back pain, but not sciatica.

Jgunn Wrote:
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> btw have you tried using apple cider vinegar for
> your sciatica .. Prism from this forum suffers
> from it too an she has had amazing relief from
> hers by bathing in the stuff and my dad
> suffered from tremendously painful rheumatoid
> arthritis in his neck (he was a welder) and hes
> amazed at the relief hes having with the stuff
>
> she adds a couple of cups to the bathwater and
> takes 3 spoonfulls orally daily
>
> maybe worth a try .. a spoonfull in yer smoothie
> you probably wouldnt even notice if yer not the
> vinegar drinking type (personally i love the stuff
> lol) I can't tell if you're serious or just kidding. I think kidding. I've never tried Apple Cider Vinegar. I don't get an 'Amen' so I probably won't try it. I'm not saying it won't work for others. I'd like to do Clay Mud Packs but it's so messy.

nope im serious do a search on posts by prism and seriously my dad has been feeling amazing on the stuff and hes a stodgy ol' non believer but even he says wow

a couple of cups in yer bath will be so diluted you wont smell it but you could rinse off in a quick shower if you thought it necessary .. i use the stuff in my hair all the time to make it shiny its realy great stuff !

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

juicin' john Wrote:
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> yogi
>
> don't give up juicing. get a green star and store
> your juices for a few days in the fridge. juicing
> is the one thing that can do the most for you. After thinking about this for a couple of days, I don't think I can do without my morning Carrot Juice. It's been part of my daily routine for many years now. Thanks for your encouragement.....WY

karennd Wrote:
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> I know someone who had sciatica who fixed it with
> one Osteopathic manipulation treatment from a D.O.
> type doctor. Craniosacral therapy is another
> alternative. Both are very gentle. The advantage
> of the Osteopathic manipulation by a doctor is
> that insurance often will cover it. That's excellent advice. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so anti-Doctor. I've been to numerous Chiropractors who have all turned out to be Quacks. But I know there are some good ones out there......WY

Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> juicin' john Wrote:
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> > yogi
> >
> > don't give up juicing. get a green star and
> store
> > your juices for a few days in the fridge.
> juicing
> > is the one thing that can do the most for you.
> After thinking about this for a couple of days, I
> don't think I can do without my morning Carrot
> Juice. It's been part of my daily routine for many
> years now. Thanks for your encouragement.....WY

I can't give up my carrot/apple juice either. I'm definitely feeling better on smoothies but I love what juicing carrots has done for my skin. So juicing still has a place in my life. Especially for my weekly 24 hour fast.

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> I can't give up my carrot/apple juice either. I'm
> definitely feeling better on smoothies but I love
> what juicing carrots has done for my skin. So
> juicing still has a place in my life. Especially
> for my weekly 24 hour fast. A weekly 24-hour Fast sounds like a good idea. Carrot Juice is good for the skin, as you mentioned. Sometimes I do a massage with it. I like it for the face and hair too....WY

Osteopathic manipulation is very different from chiropractic work, btw.

"As a general rule, chiropractors focus most of their attention on the spine, while osteopathic practitioners devote more of the their efforts to the manipulation of soft tissues and joints outside the spine. Another general difference is that chiropractic spinal manipulation tends to make use of rapid short movements (spinal manipulation, which is a high-velocity, low-amplitude technique), while OM typically concentrates on gentle, larger movements (mobilization, which is a low-velocity, high-amplitude technique)."

This is the website of the American Osteopathic Association - [www.osteopathic.org]. You can click on Find a D.O. in the upper right to locate one near you.

D.O.s (Doctors of Osteopathy) first started out only healing people with hands on treatment many years ago, but with the advent of antibiotics and what seemed like a 'cure' by allopathic medicine of many diseases - the D.O.s started losing all their patients to the M.D.s. So they changed their training of D.O.s to include the allopathic training and now, some D.O.s are indistinguishable from their fellow M.D.s. Some do not use the osteopathic manipulation in their work. There are many that use both. And there are still some that only use the hands on approach. Like the famous Dr. Fulford that Dr. Weil discovered and wrote about in his book "Spontaneous Healing". Because of his book I took my daughter for cranial osteopathic manipulations when she was little and ended her ear infections.

Dr. Weil recommends the following on his website for sciatica:

Acupuncture: The National Institutes of Health recognizes acupuncture as an acceptable alternative to conventional therapies for low back pain. Look for an acupuncturist accredited by the American Association of Oriental Medicine or the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture.
Bodywork: Both the Alexander Technique and the Trager Approach can help overcome back pain. The Trager Approach includes table work (a practitioner gently rocks and lengthens your body to release tension) followed by a movement lesson for continued self-care. The Alexander Technique can help relieve pain and prevent recurrences by correcting poor posture and teaching proper patterns of movement.
Therapeutic Yoga: Yoga can help relieve pain and protect against recurrences by strengthening your back. It also can balance nervous functioning, promote flexibility and neutralize stress, all of which contribute to back pain.
Physical Therapy: Most conventional doctors who treat sciatica recommend physical therapy with stretching exercises as soon as the pain begins to diminish. You often can begin this rehabilitation by taking short walks even before starting physical therapy. (Therapeutic yoga may offer more benefits than physical therapy.)
Osteopathic Manipulation: This system of manipulation of the musculoskeletal system can be a highly effective treatment and usually requires only a few visits to a qualified practitioner.

I hope you get to feeling better soon, WY and that the juicing and smoothies do the trick! I just wanted to post more information in case anyone was interested.

Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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Carrot Juice is good
> for the skin, as you mentioned. Sometimes I do a
> massage with it. I like it for the face and hair
> too....WY

Pictures please. Hehehe

Are smoothies just made in blenders?

yes, smoothies are made in blenders. Sometimes you need a very powerful one to make it work - Blend-tec, Vitamix, powerful Waring.

roxeli Wrote:
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> Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> -----
> Carrot Juice is good
> > for the skin, as you mentioned. Sometimes I do
> a
> > massage with it. I like it for the face and
> hair
> > too....WY
>
> Pictures please. Hehehe LOL. Just visualize a skinny, slightly gray-headed Indian.....WY

'Just visualize a skinny, slightly gray-headed Indian'.....WY

???

rawne Wrote:
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> 'Just visualize a skinny, slightly gray-headed
> Indian'.....WY
>
> ??? Rubbing the skin with what you juice can make it quite dark. I'd like to get into the habit of giving myself a full-body massage with some of my morning Carrot-Wheatgrass Juice.....WY

sweeet talk about playin with yer food ~!

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Glad to see you didn't end up giving up. I quit my daily carrot, apple and beet juice a couple weeks ago and I lost some energy and have been craving it like crazy. Try searching www.curezone.com. Got to be a forum on there for this or at least a few posts on people who have found things that helped.



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LikeItOrNot Wrote:
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> Glad to see you didn't end up giving up. Carrot Juice is part of my morning routine now. It's so filling that I don't get hungry until late afternoon. I quit my daily carrot, apple and beet juice a couple weeks ago and I lost some energy and have been craving it like crazy. Try searching www.curezone.com. Got to be a forum on there for this or at least a few posts on people who have found things that helped. Yes, some of those at the Juicing Forum at CureZone are quite knowledgeable. Grassman comes immediately to mind......WY